Lorcan Sirr

You know, if you're in the modular home, the person can let themselves in whether you're there or not.

I think that's going to be a huge issue.

Well, this didn't really come from the construction industry.

This came from a lot of group progress, Ireland, who don't seem to know much about building regulations or a lot of these issues around title and licensees.

I mean, I think that there's possibly room for this.

If the government had left it alone as being used for family members, we'll say, you know, so if you have a family of four living in a house, say a mother and father and a son and the son's partner and the mother and father put in a modular home and they move out the back.

I mean, that could be OK because you would assume there'd be no rent changing hands and also the number of people wouldn't change.

So there'd be no extra capacity, no extra load on the water, the sewage, for example, still before people there, you know.

And that potentially has potential.

But the idea that you open it up now so that it's going to be part of the rental market and you could see, you know, huge numbers of extra people descending on areas and moving in as licensees with their cars and everything else.

I mean, I think that was problematic.

I think the government kind of got a little bit greedy about this, whereas if they had left it as being just suitable for family members, I think that it potentially would have had a role there.

But letting it kind of loose on the private rental sector,

as a kind of a legitimate form of somewhere for people to live, as not a tenant but a licensee, I think that's where the problems are going to start.

Yeah, I mean, I think like if you're to buy a modular home, there are, I don't know, about 120,000.

So it's for people who have that access to that kind of money for a start.

It's also for people who have access to enough space in the garden.

So when you put in one of these things, you still have to leave 25 square metres of, you know, grass area or back garden area.

So there'll be two types of people, I suspect, who might be interested in this.

One is people who have money to do this.